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CTC Unit 4~Day 1-2
My son:
*learned that many of the world's myths contain memories of the creation week in Genesis Finding Our Roots.
*read about his favorite animal in Land Animals. CATS
*adjusted to his new schedule with R&S English without too much complaining.
*continued the story of Jacob and Esau in the Family Bible.
*read his poem for me on video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA6aNqqdg6Y


Bigger Unit 1~Day 4-5 through Unit 2~Day 1-2
My daughter:
*is really enjoying our Storytime reading of Helen Keller. Her brother has been known to listen in and chuckle at Helen's antics.
*finished her historical fiction book in DITHR and has started on Fantasy. Raggedy Ann and the Golden Butterfly by Johnny Gruelle
*Made a map of Columbus' journeys and wrote a written narration for History.
*started her timeline. I used Daisy's ideas for this. Pictures here http://daisyhomeschoolblog.blogspot.com ... igger.html
*did a couple Science experiments. One about what makes things sink or float and one about what causes waves in the ocean.
*memorized Four by the Clock by Henry Longfellow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqct3bW8MFw
*copied her verses, character trait, and written narration

Gotpeace91: Your ds is only 12???? My he looks so much older and his voice has already changed! My 11 year old is dying for his voice to change! LOL

Your kiddoes reading their poems reminded me...every Friday night, we have a Poetry Reading. The kids get up in front of us and read (or recite) their poems and show off their paintings. Sometimes, we get silly and all do something...other times, we are very serious and I pick something from my days as an English major in college to read back to them. This has really enriched our family time on Friday nights. We are enjoying these guides so much. Thank you Carrie! It is not just the lesson plans, it is the way this curriculum speaks to and weaves itself into our lives. It is wonderful!

Rebecca, I know! Waaa! He really grew up so much over the last year! His hands and feet look so manly now. He turns 13 on Nov. 8th. I am very tall (5'11") so looking older than you are kind of happens in my family. All 3 of my children have always been taller than their peers. My oldest ds (21) towers over me and it looks like middle ds is working on that too.

Poetry Night sounds like a lot of fun. My dh (bless his heart) is not remotely interested in that kind of thing but he does listen to their poetry readings and gives the dutiful "Good Job" at the end. Most of the bookish stuff happens with me during the day.

I love everyone's pictures. Looks like several of us are doing CTC this year. That makes it so fun. We had a great first week with CTC and you can read about it on my blog here http://graceandfur.blogspot.com/2010/08/first-week.html

You guys are making me anxious to get to CTC. It looks like so much fun!

Here's my post about our week with LHFHG. We're loving it!
http://cherish-each-moment.blogspot.com ... eek-6.html

Leah, Rebecca, and Lynn--it's great to see your CTC adventures! I love that we are all doing this together this year, so we can share our journeys and learning here.

I love the idea of videotaping the poetry reading, too! I don't know how to put things online like that yet, but it may help our dd to learn to read with more emotion and inflection if she can see herself doing it. Thanks for the great idea!

Stephanie--I LOVED seeing your Kindergarten adventures! Those days are SO much fun, I miss them! The video of your sweet son singing his hymn was just precious!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stephanie, that video of your son singing was absolutely the most precious thing ever! Thanks for sharing!

Stephanie, I agree with the others! That video of your son singing is SO precious! He did a great job! He's a great reader too! There were some hard words in that hymn.

Thanks everyone! He wasn't actually reading it he just wanted to hold the book. I think he could read most of the words but some of them he was just so familiar with the hymn that when it got to them he could figure out the word by the first few letters.

Loved reading about your week, ladies!!!

Ladies,

I thoroughly enjoyed reading about each of your weeks. You are all doing such a good job as teachers and are inspiring me as I'm organizing to get going with our school too! Thanks so much for taking the time to share!

Blessings,
Carrie